The RulesHere's how it will work. The goal will be to knit one pair of socks each month for the next 6 months (beginning in February and ending in July, but keep reading to the bitter end to find out how to get extra credit in January). I was going to make it 12, but who has that long of an attention span these days? For each pair of socks that you knit and share with all of us via your blog or pics e-mailed to me to post here, you'll get entered in a drawing for a fabulous prize (TBD, but it will be something sock-related, and it will be fantastic!). Anyone who knits all six will be entered in a bonus drawing for an extra special bonus prize (ooooh! aaaah!). How's that for motivation?

This knit-along will be fairly mellow for those less-competitive folks since you can knit just one pair of socks and still get your name in the drawing one time. You can knit as many socks per month as you want, but you'll only get drawing credit for the first pair (so max number of entries is six).

More Prizes!As if the grand prize drawing wasn't enough, there will be seven monthly drawings as well, starting in January. Everyone who finishes a pair of socks in that month will be entered to win sock yarn.

DeadlinesYou must sign up by the 20th of each month and finish (and let me know of) your socks by midnight PST of the last day of the month. You can sign up anytime, but if you sign up after the 20th of the month, you won't get entered in that month's drawing and will have to wait until the next month. To be included in the grand prize drawing, you must be signed up by July 20th and finish your July socks by the last day of the month. But remember, the sooner you sign up, the more chances you have to win!

Also, you must finish the socks (i.e. they must come off the needles) in the month in which you ask for credit. Socks can have been started anytime and can be socks that you will be giving away.

Since this knit-along is gearing up to be a smashing success, I will ask that you e-mail me with your sock updates. I'd love to visit all y'all's blogs to check for socks, but since there are so many of you, I just can't do it. And I don't want to miss anyone's fab socks! So send me an update when you have sock picks and I'll post a link/pic so everyone can drool over them and be inspired.

I will be keeping track of how many socks you've knit next to your name in my sidebar. You will get a little letter for each month in which you've completed a sock. As you can see, we've got a number of eager beavers who have already completed their January extra credit sock. Which brings me to...

**BONUS ENTRY**For those of you who are chomping at the bit to get started, I'll let you early birds who finish socks in January get an extra bonus entry to the grand prize drawing. Yes, these can be socks that you finished before the knit-along started, as long as they came off the needles on or after Jan. 1 and you e-mail me a link/pic. Get knitting, y'all!

Join us!E-mail me or leave a comment if you want to join up. With all the other sock knit-alongs going on right now, what have you got to lose? How can you beat getting multiple knit-along credits with one little pair of socks?

no time like the present to get moving on those socks! one pair a month for six months sounds managable..and i've got a great sock book i can work out of...and lots of sock yarn (that's an understatement)...so count me in, too! :)

Goodie! I just chanced upon your site... another PDX knitter? I dig! Please sign me up for the sock-a-month KAL (I've already got a pair on the needles, really chomping at the bit here). Love the blog, love the KAL. Ok, enough loving. Time for me to go to bed!

Sign me up, please! I've been steering away from sock knitting by some bigger projects and this is just the motivation I need to get back into it. Also, I've got to whittle down my sock yarn stash so I can pick up some more that I've had my eye on. Thank you for hosting this. It'll be fun seeing what everyone comes up with.

I want to join. I just finished fuzzy feet to master the heel turn and such while doing something big so I know have the confidence to knit some socks!!! I am so excited. I do believe I will quickly become a sock knitting addict. So is there anything else I need to do beside posting a comment here other than send you pics when I finish some? Thanks.

Here I go, my first knit-along. Sign me up. I have one sock almost done, and this will motivate me to finish and start on the next one. Plus it gives me a great excuse to buy some Mountain colors yarn that I have been wanting to get for a pair of socks!!

I missed the February deadline I guess, but can I would like to start to knit along in March.I am in a sock knitting frenzy so beware :) Right now I am knitting along happily on the sockapaloooza sock. That one will be finished in time to start something for this knitalong. What a great idea.Helga

Oh no! I didn't realize that we had to sign up every month - I thought we were just signed up for the whole thing! Ack! Well, I just finished my March socks yesterday. I meant to finish them in January, but the hand problems haven't helped. Hopefully you'll be able to have a little mercy on me.

About Me

Welcome to the wild & wooly world of knitwear designer Chrissy Gardiner. I'm a mom of two who spends as much time as possible knitting and designing knitting patterns. I have been published in various books and magazines as well as printing my own pattern line, Gardiner Yarn Works. I published my first book, Toe-Up!, in the summer of 2009. It's about socks, of course!